Vision

Enabling independence and enriching community engagement for all individuals with DS.

Mission

Empowering families to learn, share, and connect

Catalyzing a clinical network that delivers transformational results

Identifying and accelerating high impact research

Your Donation Helps

Down syndrome research offers opportunities for people of all ages with Down syndrome. Your support is essential to finding safe, effective drugs and interventions to improve health and independence. Your gift is crucial to furthering these breakthroughs.

We’ve designed a clear path to therapies

Based on recent scientific findings, our CEO, board and world renowned scientific advisors have established four priorities for funding research. We’re focused on exciting research targeting the root cause with the objective of improving health and independence for our loved ones throughout their lifetimes. Our four priorities are: preventing Alzheimer’s onset, improving cognition, developing gene therapies, and advancing understanding.

LuMind RDS News

BURLINGTON, Mass. January 18, 2019 – LuMind™ Research Down Syndrome Foundation (LuMind RDS) and International Down Syndrome Community (IDSC) are combining resources and expertise on a collaboration to create the IDSC LuMind RDS Facebook Group to better serve people with Down syndrome and their communities. “An important part of the LuMind RDS mission is connecting …

Giving back is not new to John’s Crazy Socks (JCS), who just announced they are donating $2 from every sale of their Alzheimer’s Awareness Forget Me Not socks to the LuMind RDS Foundation. They already donate 5 percent of their earnings to Special Olympics and support other causes by creating awareness socks to benefit them. These …

Robby Ketchell, a scientist who helped Nike and a team of runners train to break the 2 hour marathon barrier last May, raced against the clock in the New York City Marathon. He was aiming to cross the finish line in under 3 hours and 21 minutes in honor of his son, Wyatt, who was …

What people are saying about us.

“I never thought I would be in a position to say, ‘We are going to take therapies forward to directly treat Down syndrome.’ Now I think that is the case. We really are in the early stages of a revolution in understanding the basis for many of the features that occur in Down syndrome.”